Glove-fastening



(No Model.)

B. PRINGLE. GLOVE FASTENING.

116,445,820. Patented Feb. 3, 1891.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE PRINGLE, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MADISON D. Sl-IIPMAN AND CHARLES E. BRADT, BOTH OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 445,820, dated February 3, 1891.

Application filed March 20, 1888. Serial No. 267,868. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. EUGENE PRINGLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented certain new.

and useful Improvements in Separable Buttons, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to separable buttons; and it consists of the devices, parts, and ele- IO ments and combinations of devices, parts, and elements hereinafter particularly described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The objects of my invention are to provide in a separable button a button-head which will be composed of few parts and contain a stud-holding tube having an annular studcngaging flange for operation with a stud; also, to provide in a button-head an upwardlyflaring stud-receiving tube and an outwardly- 2o flaring piece between which the tube of the fastening-eyelet will be turned outwardly; also, to provide a spring-stud for co-operation with the holding parts of the button-head, and a new means for fastening this stud to 2 5 the fabric. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a sectional viewof the two parts of a separable button, and illustrating the manner in which each is fastened to the fabric. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are each a sectional elevation of a button-head containing the essential elements which enter into the construc- 3 5 tion of the same. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the top shell of the button-head. Fig. 6 is aview of the same from below. Fig. 7 is asectional view of the stud-receiving tube. Fig.8 is aview from above of the same. Fig. 9 is a sectional view of the eyelet for fasten ing the button-head to the fabric. Fig. 10 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 11 is a sectional view of the lower side piece of the button-head which can be used with the same. 5 Fig. 12 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 13 is a sectional view of the flanged disk which can be used with the flange of the fasteningeyelet. Fig. 14: is a plan view of the same. Fig. 15 is a sectional view of the top shell of button-head in Fig. at. Fig. 16 is a view of the same from its lower side. Fig. 17 is a sectional view of the stud-receiving tube. Fig. 18 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 19 is a sectional view of the lower side piece in the button-head which can be employed. Fig. 20 5 5 is a view of the same from its lower side. Fig. 21 is a sectional view of the eyelet employed with the head. Fig. 22 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 23 is a sectional elevation of the stud-post. Fig. 24 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 25 is a side elevation of the elastic catch employed in the stud. Fig. 26

is a View of the same from above. Fig. 27 is a sectional view of the disk employed with the base of the stud. Fig. 28 is a sectional view of the base-binding piece. Fig. 29 is a modification of the piece shown in Fig. 28. Fig. 30 is the eyelet for securing the stud to the fabric. Fig. 31 is a sectional view of the stud and its adjuncts secured to the fabric and Fig. 32 is a sectional view of a buttonhead having some of its parts modified.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 32, A is the top shell of the button-head, and B is the under side piece of the head for holding with the eyelet for securing the head to the fabric and is shown to be secured to piece A by flange a being clinched on the said piece B. Fig. 11 shows this under side piece B to have its central tubular portion 1) made with a straight wall, which is flared outwardly, as indicated by dotted lines in the same figure and as shown by full lines in Figs. 2 and 3, while in 8 5 Figs. 1, i, and 19 this under side piece B is shown to have its order of portions inverted as compared to those shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and as having its portions 1) corresponding with the form of the shell A, as in Fig. i, and held in place with said shell by the clinch a of the latter, as shown, while port-ion b is made flaring substantially as the corresponding portion (Z with piece D in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and a. 5

0, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4C, 17, and 18, is the stud-receiving tube, having the flaring portion 0 about corresponding in degree, of angle with that of the flaring portion 1) of piece B. The upper edge 0 of this tube has bearing against I00 the top shell A, and its lower end is contracted to form the stud-holding lips 0 as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and at. \Vhen this button-head is completed and ready to be fastened to the material, it will contain as component parts the outer shell A, piece B, and

stud-receiving tube G, and the piece B-will be secured to shell A, while tube 0 will have its flaring portion 0 all around neighboring the inner side surface of the flaring portion 1) of piece B, and when this head is to be secured to the material M the tubular portion (Z of the eyelet D, Figs. 9 and 10, will be entered and forced between the flaring portion b of piece B and the flaring wall 0 of tube C,.as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and l.

In Fig. 32 the portion 12 of piece Bis shown to have its upperend curved outwardly, while the stud-receiving portion 0 is shown to be integral with the outer shell A and to taper downwardly from said shell, soas to be substantially flaring as the side walls of tubes 0 in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4c are shown to be, and with this form of construction of the parts in Fig. 32 an eyelet similar to eyelet D, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, is employed, as shown.

E, Figs. 1 and 31,is the stud, which in its essential parts is shown to be composed of the hollow post 6 and its base-flange e and elastic duplex catch F, suitably supported within the post 6 and having its catchingchins o 'u projected laterally out beyond the walls of said post to a distance suiiicient for them to co-operate with the stud-holding lips o in the stud-receiving tube 0 or C for'connection of the stud with the button-head.

The stud-post 8 below its head and-baseflange 6, Figs. 23 and 24, are shown to be divided by the slits s s,in which slits the catching-piece F is placed. This catching-piece F is shown in-Fig. 26 to be narrow in width, so as to be received within slits s and to be integral with the base-limbs f f, which limbs are shown in Figs. 1, 25, and 31 to be connected with the catches r by the legs f f and to be held in place in the slit 8 in the base 6 by suitable pieces.

In Fig. 1 the base-limbs f of the catch F are.

shownto be supported and secured in place in the slit in the base 6 of the stud by piece G- and the flange h of the eyelet Il'. These pieces G and H are only shown in sectional elevation in Figs. 1, 2'7, and 28; yet it is to be understood that those pieces are made circular in formand with a diameter corresponding with that of the base 6 of the stud E. These pieces are shown to be secured together with the base portion c of the stud by the flan-ge-rinrh' being clinched on the upper side of base-flange e of the stud, with the limbs ff of catch F and piece Gbetween the flange h of the eyelet II and the base-flange of the stud, as shown in Fig. 1.

InFig. 31 the base-limbs ffof the catch F are shown to besecured in place in the slit of the base 6 of the stud by the eyelet H, made without any rim-flange for clinching, and the plate H provided with rim-flange 7i, clinched on the lower side of the flange of eyelet H, as shown in Fig. 31.

I, Figs. 1, 30, and 31, is an eyelet by which the stud is fastened to the fabric by its flange 2' clamping on the lower side of the material and its tube portion 'L' striking the centralconvex portion 9 of piece G, being turned outwardly and clinched on the flange of the 11pper side clan'iping-eyelet H, as shown. IV hen the stud E is entered into the stud-receiving tube. 0 from its central opening 0 the catching-chins-o o of the catching-piece Fwill be forced inwardly while passing the catchinglips c at the lower end of said tube, and after passing the same these catching-chins v v will spring outwardly and hold with said lips 0 as shown in Fig. 1. When thecatchingchins v v of the catch F are forced'inwardly to pass the catching-lips c in tube 0, thiscatch will yieldat the bows i) above and-r at the base, Fig. 25.

In Fig. 2 the catching-lip c is shown-to be omitted from the stud-receiving tube 0, and the margin edges 0 at the central opening 0 of piece 0', Figs. 2, 13, and 14., operate as catching-lips, with which the catching-chins c U of the stud will engage. In Fig.2-this piece 0 is shown to have its flange c to be clinched on the outer edge of the flange of the eyelet D.

By the above-described improvementsl am enabled to produce a separable button which will be strong in its parts and be cheaply made and readily appliedto the material.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a button-headof aseparable button, the combination,with the under side piece B,

secured within an outer shell and having the flaring portion 12 andthe stud-holding lip or lips at the entrance of a stud-receivingtube, which is retained with said under. side piece by its flaring portion 17, of. aneyelet which is provided with a flange portion for clamping on the fabric and a tube portion 2. In a button-head of a separable button,

the combination, with-the stud-receiving tube 0, having a flaring portion andstud-holding lips at its-stud-entering end, and the flaring with the slitted stud-post having; a slitted base and the elastic duplex catch having itscatching-chins projected outwardly from the slits in stud-post and having base-limbs which are seated in the slits in the base portion of the stud, of pieces G and H, (re-operating with cured t0 the stud-base and the fastening-eyethe slitted base of the, said stud-post and the let I, substantially as and for the purposes IO base-limbs of the duplex catch, substantially set forth.

as and for the purposes set forth.

' T T 4:. In a separable button, the combination, EUUELE with an elastic duplex catching-stud having Witnesses: with its base the plate G, provided with the WILLIAM F. SELKIRK, central convex portion 0f the eyelet H, se- CHARLES SELKIRK. 

